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...twelve years in boxing's big time (ten years as heavyweight champion) Joe has grossed $2,815,000. Taxes have taken a lot, but so has his investing: everything he has touched (notable exceptions: his annuity and three Chicago apartment houses) seemed to turn to red ink. Among others, there was the Brown Bomber softball team ($30,000 loss), a Detroit restaurant called the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack (about $15,000), a Michigan dude ranch ($25,000), and his flyer last fall in West Coast pro football ($7,500). He gets about 350 fan letters a week, mostly from...
...thinking of all the unexplored territory outside the U.S. where people might pay just to see Joe flex his muscles. Joe put on his best deadpan mask for the benefit of strangers, and headed for Latin America. At Mexico City, in an exhibition, he carefully pulled his punches for ten rounds against Arturo Godoy, who had once lasted 15 rounds in the ring against Joe. Both got booed (fans who knowingly pay to see an "exhibition" hopefully expect to see a fight), but Joe got his $50,000 guarantee...
...still a dedicated man. Mexican-born, he quit college in Los Angeles to study art in Manhattan, had no dance training at all when friends sent him to Dancers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, a pair of experimenters whom dance historians bracket with Martha Graham. In his ten years with their group Limon was first student, then teacher and featured soloist. Limon left them only because he was ready to go out on his own. Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works in his present repertory (the other...
Contemporary composers rarely crash the culture-pearly gates of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Italian-born Gian-Carlo Menotti has done it twice in the past ten years. It has been an honor unaccompanied by noises of a cash register. Menotti's 1937 Amelia Goes to the Ball and his 1942 The Island God together got only nine Met performances (he was paid about $150 a time). In 1939 he wrote a modest little chamber opera for the radio, The Old Maid and the Thief, which has since been given 100 times and earned far more than his grand operas...
...executive-type plane is too much for most companies. So the $7,750 Navion is being plugged-and sold-more as a work plane for companies than a play plane for individuals. Of the 559 sales to date, 90% have been sold for business uses. At present production of ten a day, there is already a four-month backlog. By year's end, North American hopes to have 2,500 Navions off its assembly line...